Leucaena leucocephala Flowers (Lamtoro)

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Lamtoro, petai china, or petai bark is a kind of shrub from the tribe of Fabaceae.
Lamtoro china trees have a height of 8 meters up to 18 meters. The leaves are compound and fin-shaped double fins, 3-10 pairs of fins, mostly with glands on the leaf shaft just before the base of the lowest fins: small pendulum leaves, triangular shape.Child leaves every 5-20 pairs of fins, opposite, pointed and the base is oblique and not the same. the surface is smooth and the edges are frayed.

The flowers are compound in the form of long-stemmed humps gathered in the panicle containing 2-6 bongkol.tiap-each perforated composed of 100-180 flower buds, forming a white or yellowish ball diameter of 12-21meli meter.Flowers small, five-digit, petal tube a short bucket shape, a sole crown, and a loose end. Benangsari 10 pieces.

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The fruit pods are ribbon-shaped straight, thin and thin with barriers between green seeds and finally brown greenish or dark brown when dry or if cooked.Lamtoro fruit contains 15-30 seeds located transversely in the legs, egg-shaped breech or round egg upside down, with a shiny dark brown. The seeds look like petai, but are smaller and smaller in size too.

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Long since lamtoro has been used as shade trees, erosion prevention, sources of firewood and fodder. In fertile soils, lamtoro grows rapidly and can reach a height of 20 meters within 3 to 5 years. Usually lamtoro (petai china) is grown as a protective tree, shade, and to cope with the hurricane. This plant can also be used for green manure: by immersing the pangkas leaves as fertilizer in the soil.

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Benefits of medicines

The lamtoro seeds taste bitter and neutral. This plant is a peluruh urine (diuretic) and intestinal worms. In addition to containing mimosine, leukain, leukaol, and protein, it also contains alkaloids, saponins, flavonoids, tannins, proteins, fats, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and some vitamins: A, B1, and C. For use as medicinal, and all parts of this plant are used. The seeds are dried and powdered. As much as 1 teaspoon of seeds boiled in 1/2 cup of heat can be used for diabetes. By the Sundanese in West Java, young shoots of lamtoro leaf can be used to be attached to wounds caused by sharp objects. The lamtoro fruit mixed with taro bark can be used to treat the wound of the knife.

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Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Ordo: Fabales

Famili: Fabaceae

Subfamili: Mimosoideae

Genus: Leucaena

Spesies: L. leucocephala

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